Croton & Ossining's WDFH: Dan Savage Interview on OutCasting

This week on WDFH our new LGBT Youth program OutCasting will feature an interview with nationally-syndicated columnist, author, activist, and co-founder of the It Gets Better Project Dan Savage  He will discuss the rash of teen suicides that resulted in the designation of October 20 as Gay Spirit Day in solemn commemoration of those and other suicides.

OutCasting airs Thurday evenings at 6:30 p.m. and again on Saturday afternoon at 1:00 p.m.  You can tune in to 90.3 FM in central Westchester county or listen online here.

More about the It Gets Better Project:

In September 2010, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage created a YouTube video with his partner Terry to inspire hope for young people facing harassment. In response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school, they wanted to create a personal way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT youth that, yes, it does indeed get better.

Eleven months later, the It Gets Better Project (TM) has turned into a worldwide movement, inspiring more than 25,000 user-created videos viewed more than 40 million times. To date, the project has received submissions from celebrities, organizations, activists, politicians and media personalities, including President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Lambert, Anne Hathaway, Colin Farrell, Matthew Morrison of "Glee", Joe Jonas, Joel Madden, Ke$ha, Sarah Silverman, Tim Gunn, Ellen DeGeneres, Suze Orman, the staffs of The Gap, Google, Facebook, Pixar, the Broadway community, and many more. For us, every video changes a life. It doesn’t matter who makes it.

More about Dan Savage:

Dan Savage is author of the internationally syndicated relationship and sex column Savage Love and the weekly podcast Savage Lovecast. He is editorial director of the Seattle weekly The Stranger, where he was formerly Editor-in-Chief. He is a regular contributor to PRI's "This American Life" and has been featured as a Real Time Reporter on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Dan heard about the suicides of Justin Aaberg and Billy Lucas and had a reaction so many LGBT adults had. “I wish I could’ve talked to that kid for five minutes before he killed himself,” Dan recently said. “I’d tell him that however bad it was in high school or middle school...it gets better.” The It Gets Better Project was born.

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WDFH must raise funding in order for OutCasting and other programming to continue.  In particular, we are trying to reach foundations, businesses, and individuals who support LGBT issues and the empowerment of youth.  All contributions are fully tax-deductible.  We need your help, so please step up to the plate.